Prospective students bring enthusiasm to UHV Jaguar Day

By TimHudson in Hudson On Higher Learning

Last Saturday was an exciting day at the University of Houston-Victoria as we hosted the second UHV Jaguar Day for prospective freshmen, transfer students and their parents, families and supporters so they could learn more about the university and what ...

Freshmen profiles offer glimpse into UHV’s future

By TimHudson in Hudson On Higher Learning

Have you ever met Elvira Chavez? Juan Andrade? How about Jasmin Herrera or her mom, Enedelia? Connie Ramos, perhaps? No? Well, we hadn’t either, until recently. But all of these folks, and many more, are part of the process underway ...

UHV strives to become ‘destination’ university to benefit region

By TimHudson in Hudson On Higher Learning

In June of last year, the University of Houston System completed an extensive, yearlong strategic planning process led by a highly regarded consultant, Alceste Pappas of Pappas Consulting Group in Stamford, Conn. Among the many issues addressed was the identity ...

New UHV freshmen to bring excitement to Victoria

By TimHudson in Hudson On Higher Learning

We’re continuing to work hard to recruit our FIRST 200 underclassmen to attend UHV this fall. It’s an exciting time as we let people know UHV’s new status as a four-year university accepting freshmen and sophomores, along with upper-division and ...

Champions of Character program encourages UHV athletes to focus on being students first

By TimHudson in Hudson On Higher Learning

The idea of educating the mind while developing the body is as old as history. The Egyptians did it, the Greeks thrived on it, and now our modern American system of higher education, with roots in the British sports clubs ...

Studying abroad leads students to become better world citizens

By TimHudson in Hudson On Higher Learning

When I was a graduate student at Clark University in Massachusetts, my major professor walked into the tiny office I shared with a colleague and said he needed one of us to go to Jamaica and the other to Zambia. ...

Jaguar Hall gestation: The head and heart of building a ‘communiversity’

By TimHudson in Hudson On Higher Learning

Last March, Jeffrey Di Leo (dean of School of Arts & Sciences) and I were arriving back in Victoria after a conference in Mexico, having been met at the airport by Charles Alcorn (managing editor of the American Book Review). ...

Thank goodness for good teachers

By TimHudson in Hudson On Higher Learning

Like many of you, when I went to college, I continued to work – in my case in my family’s sawmill business. (My father’s famous quote: “I think it is great that you are going to college, and I will ...

Land goes hand in hand with learning

By TimHudson in Hudson On Higher Learning

UHV sits on 19 acres, 16 on the west side of North Ben Wilson Street that abuts The Victoria College and three acres across that busy four-lane street where we put some of our physical plant operations. This makes us ...

UHV learns how students perceive university

By TimHudson in Hudson On Higher Learning

Every year, hundreds of thousands of American college students respond to a survey that goes by the Loch Ness Monster-sounding acronym of “Nessie” – or NSSE , the National Survey of Student Engagement. And it is a monster of a ...